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Food security is an issue in this election for 54 per cent of Canadians. (FatCamera/E+/Getty Images)
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Food, farming not expected to be big election issues

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Canadians don’t think that food and agriculture will be a significant issue in the current federal election. A survey conducted Sept. 9 and released Tuesday by Angus Reid Global with the support of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab shows 31 per cent of Canadians believe food and agriculture will be a prime electoral issue during […] Read more
Closeup shot of a glass of milk on a dairy farm with cattle grazing in the background
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Editorial: Dairy compensation plan announcement ill-timed

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Governments can be ham-fisted and tone deaf, a symptom of their huge, creaking architecture. They throw new coats of paint out to different areas of the economy just before elections. That lack of tact was in full display recently when Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canada’s minister of agriculture and agri-food, announced a $1.75 billion, eight-year program for […] Read more
Fresh dairy milk in glass and bottle
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Editorial: U.S. ponders its dairy future

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You can tell every five to 10 years that the American milk situation is getting particularly dire, when they start having more discussions about supply management. American dairy farms are in their fifth year of chronically low milk prices, which declined quickly in late 2014 from about $25 per hundredweight of milk to a range […] Read more
Dairy farmers have been concerned about the continued expansion of the dairy market with the signing of three trade deals which all gave up access to Canada’s dairy market.
Markets, News

Easing concern about CUSMA dairy concessions

Al Mussell sees potential for some Canadian ingredients to continue crossing border

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Once the dust has settled on the ratifications of the Canada-United States-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA), access to U.S. markets for certain Canadian dairy ingredients could meet or even exceed what previously existed. At least that was the assertion made by Al Mussell, research lead at Guelph-based Agri-Food Economic Systems, during a recent dairy producer information […] Read more
Graham Lloyd is general manager of Dairy Farmers of Ontario.
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Processor investments should continue to grow Ontario milk market

The fluid milk market situation has prompted calls for better forecasting of quota allocation

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Dairy Farmers of Ontario expects the demand for milk in the province to continue to grow, even with potentially significant new volumes of imports from trade deals. But unlike last year, there were no bold predictions of what that increase in demand means for quota levels. At last year’s annual general meeting, DFO board chair […] Read more
Aaron Fowler, Canada’s chief agriculture trade negotiator.
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Canadian negotiator said CUSMA deal had to be done

The Canadian negotiators received pressure to end supply management until late in the negotiations

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Canadian agriculture negotiators were dealing with proposals from the United States that would end supply management into September, 2018, not long before the deal was eventually completed at the end of September. That goes against the assurances of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue while visiting Canada last summer that the Americans didn’t want an end […] Read more
The second phase of the federal government's support program opens on Jan. 7, 2019.
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Next dairy support program changes format

The second part of the program will have two application stages in order to give more farmers a chance

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The second phase of the federal government’s program to help dairy farmers adapt to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Europe will attempt to make the program available to more farmers. The first phase of the program was filled rapidly, as farmers with ready projects, were able, with help from their suppliers, to […] Read more
Canada not a solution for U.S. dairy price woes
Livestock, News

Canada not a solution for U.S. dairy price woes

Americans more concerned with securing access to Mexican market than Canada

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Madison, Wisconsin – The price of milk in the United States is stuck at an unprofitable place, and U.S. farmers at the World Dairy Expo did not expect any trade deal with Canada to change that situation. Most of them had yet to look over the fine details of the new trade deal — the […] Read more
Norm and Mike McNaughton are almost finished their new dairy barn near London.
Livestock, News

Implications for the USMCA trade deal

The new deal hurts supply management but helps other farm sectors

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Norm McNaughton and his son Mike are almost ready to move cows into their new barn north of London, Ont. They’re committed to the future of the dairy industry through an investment that includes a robotic milking system. The McNaughtons are typical of an Ontario dairy sector that has been building and expanding rapidly. Canadians […] Read more

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